The 6th Annual Repository Fringe is coming!

We are delighted to announce that after its temporary incorporation into Open Repositories 2012, the Repository Fringe will return as a standalone event this year, to be held in the Informatics Forum at the University of Edinburgh from 31 July to 2 August 2013. This year Nicola Osborne of EDINA is chairing the event, which benefits from the support of Edinburgh University Library, EDINA and the Digital Curation Centre. Further sponsors and supporters are currently being sought and will be announced in due course.

Repository Fringe aims to showcase a range of innovative repository and related developments to coincide with “preview week” that precedes the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Designed for an audience of developers and coders, repository managers and practitioners, the programme retains an “unconference” feel to it, and seeks to canvas contribution from a wide range of repository actors for:

• Live demonstrations of innovative work
• “Lightning” presentations on any subject relating to current or future repository endeavours
• Facilitated Round Table discussions
• Tutorials and presentations on related topics
• Workshops and developer day activities including a “Code Challenge”
• After a notable presentation at the 2011 event we are also happy to accept presentations with live music!

Keynote speakers will open and close Repository Fringe 2013, with Mark Hahnel of FigShare just announced as the closing keynote.

Registration for this free event will open shortly. We will be recording the keynote sessions as well as blogging and tweeting throughout the conference. Summaries and links to all presentations will also be available from the website shortly after the event.

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• Repository Fringe website
• For further enquiries contact: repofringe@gmail.com
• Or follow us on Twitter: @repofringe, twitter.com/repofringe, hashtag #rfringe13